Forgotten Harvest selects Kirk Mayes as CEO

1:19 PM,
Aug. 8, 2014

Kirk Mayes has been named the new CEO of Forgotten Harvest.

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Kirk Mayes, a member of Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan's administration and former leader of a neighborhood group, will become the next CEO of Forgotten Harvest.

The Detroit-based food rescue group selected Duggan's deputy group executive for jobs and economy to help advance its efforts to provide food to food pantries, soup kitchens, homeless and domestic shelters, children's homes, senior centers and group homes.

Joyce Jenereaux, chair of the Forgotten Harvest board and president of Gannett Michigan and the Detroit Free Press, announced the hiring in a statement. ...